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One afternoon as he was preaching with great unction, he saw a long puritanical face looking up at him with a droll expression of amazement and half-irony. The stranger called on him and began at once. "Wal, parson, you are a buster, you air. You ginn it us hot you did. I'm darned if I ain't kinder ashamed to talk of this world's goods to a saint upon airth like you.
The boys still played in the garden, and the youngest wore the golden star on his breast with which the tree had been adorned during the happiest evening of its existence. Now all was past; the tree's life was past, and the story also past! for all stories must come to an end some time or other. By permission of the publishers Ginn and Company. Hans Andersen
The side door of the store that leading to the yard separating it from the Dott homestead opened, and Azuba Ginn appeared. Azuba had been the Dott maid of all work for eighteen years, ever since Gertrude was a baby. She was married, but her husband, Laban Ginn, was mate on a steam freighter running between New York and almost anywhere, and his shore leaves were short and infrequent.
He patted one pocket after the other and finally located a chunky, battered pipe, which he proceeded to fill with shavings from a black plug. Daniel watched him. A new idea was dawning in his mind, an idea which seemed to afford him some pleasurable anticipation. Mr. Ginn looked up from his tobacco shaving. "Now, tell me about all this money of yours," he commanded.
Ginns eat and drink and propagate their species, and even form sexual connections with men. A man whose wife is any way odd or mysterious has married of course a ginn. Ginns are fond of inhabiting rivers, woods, the sea, ruins, springs, drains, and caves; they come out at night more than by day, and in certain streets no Moor will walk at night. Nor will a Moor sleep alone in a room.
Obed, I DO wish you'd stop eatin' pie with a knife." Under these pleasing circumstances did Major Cuthbertson Scott Hardee make his first appearance in East Harniss, and the reputation spread abroad by Mr. Blount and Mrs. Ginn was confirmed as other prominent citizens met him, and fell under the spell. In two short weeks he was the most popular and respected man in the village.
"You have been making a fool of me! And Holway confound him " "Mr. Holway was useful. He helped. And he, too, understands, now." "By by gad I I won't go. I'll " Gertrude walked to the rear of the hall. "Mr. Ginn!" she called, "will you come, please?" Laban came. He looked happy and expectant. "Here I be," he observed eagerly. "Mr.
We cannot tell what will be the outcome; but to hope too much is at least a more generous fault than to despair too soon. C.D. Burns, Political Ideals. Clarendon Press. P. Geddes, Cities in Evolution. Williams & Norgate. J.A. Hobson, Towards International Government. Allen & Unwin. P.S. Reinsch, Public International Unions. Ginn & Co.
Ginn, who seemed a trifle suspicious, called after him, but the call was unheeded. At the door of his wife's room his room no longer Captain Dan rapped softly. The nurse opened the door. "How is she?" he whispered. "She is asleep now," whispered the nurse in reply. "You must not come in." "I wasn't goin' to. But but has she been askin' for me?" "Yes. I told her you were out.
He bolted up the stairs. Gertrude's next remark was addressed to the housekeeper. "Azuba," she said, "would you and your husband mind leaving us? Perhaps you'd better not go to bed. I I may need Mr. Ginn later on; perhaps I may. But if you and he were to go down to the kitchen and wait just a few moments I should be so much obliged. Will you?" Azuba hesitated. "Leave you?" she repeated.
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